Apple Qmaster 3 - Manual (Page 5)

The Apple Qmaster system provides automated work distribution and processing for
high-volume projects created with digital visual effects software packages such as Shake.
This preface covers the following:
• About Apple Qmaster (p. 5)
• About the Apple Qmaster Documentation (p. 5)
• Additional Resources (p. 6)
About Apple Qmaster
The Apple Qmaster application described in this document is the graphical “client
interface” that you use to submit jobs for distributed rendering and processing.
Apple Qmaster can accept jobs from Shake, Autodesk Maya, and any UNIX command-line
program. The Apple Qmaster application is one of several applications in the
Apple Qmaster distributed processing system. The complete system includes controls for
configuring clusters of processing computers and for monitoring, pausing, resuming, or
canceling work that has been submitted.
About the Apple Qmaster Documentation
Apple Qmaster comes with various documents that will help you get started as well as
provide detailed information about the application. To access these documents, open
Apple Qmaster and choose Help > Apple Qmaster Help.
• Apple Qmaster User Manual: This document describes the Apple Qmaster client
application only. For information about how to create a complete network for
Apple Qmaster processing, as well as information about how the Apple Qmaster
application works with the rest of the Apple Qmaster system, see the
Distributed Processing Setup Guide.
• Distributed Processing Setup Guide: This document explains how to set up and maintain
an Apple Qmaster distributed processing network for use with Compressor or digital
visual effects software packages such as Shake.
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